European Union Metro Station


European Union Metro Station is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. Barroso expressed his delight that the metro station was named after the European Union.

History

As the Sofia underground network was planned in the late 1970s, the station, along with the NDK Metro Station, was originally built in the early 1980s, along with the building of the National Palace of Culture. The original project name of the station was "Hemus" ; during the building of Line 2 of the Sofia Metro, it was planned to be called "Sveti Naum". Shortly before the opening of the station, the city council controversially voted to change the name to "European Union". As the timing was so close to the opening of Line 2, many of the maps in the trains still retained the name "St. Naum" even after station was opened to the public.

Interchange with other public transport

The European Union Metro Station is situated nearby the Earth and Man National Museum and City Center Sofia.

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